Ubuntu :: Remove Write Protection From Partition?
May 15, 2010
I'm trying to create a bootable HFS+ partition. I've succeeded in creating the HFS+ partition in Windows using Mac Drive 8, but need to set the partition to "Active" to be able to install an OS on it. The issue lies that when I try to set it to active in windows disk management it tells me that the media has been write protected by Mac Drive. I want to either set the partition as active (or at least disable write protection to allow me to set it as active in windows) or find another means of creating an HFS+ partition, which I know gparted claims to do but I can't manage to enable it. I'm currently running Windows 7 but I have Ubuntu 9.04 Live CD to use if necessary.
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Aug 27, 2011
I have an external hard drive that is actually a 2.5" HDD from a laptop, in a hard drive enclosure. Now I have an issue, because the hard drive had linux Ubuntu installed on it, the hard drive is write protected. So I cant copy any files. I need to copy about 12GB of pictures from it, to my current comp, so I can format it. Does anyone know how I can remove the write protection so I can copy or delete files?
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Oct 5, 2010
I have couple of USB modules. They are full of unwanted Windows files.I want to remove everything and format it.The message is it is write protected. The command fdisk -l gives the following:
Disk /dev/sdc: 2008 MB, 2008416256 bytes
57 heads, 56 sectors/track, 1228 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 3192 * 512 = 1634304 bytes
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Oct 16, 2010
By using this tutorial I've create PenDrive USB with LiveCD. I would like to modify it a bit. Unfortunately when I'm mounting it I receive fallowing message:
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linux-n7at:/home/starach # mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt
mount: warning: /mnt seems to be mounted read-only.
How can I turn it off so I could modify my pendrive contents.
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Nov 7, 2010
I have a USB stick with a mechanical write protection (a small switch that disables writing on the stick). I have installed Ubuntu 10.04.1 on this device usung the startup drive creator. If the switch is in the position that allows writing, Ubuntu boots as expected. But if I switch to write protection, I only see a blinking cursur. Because it is a live system on the stick I expected that it should work as well, because nothing should be written to the stick. Does anyone have an idea why it behaves like this and how I can change it?
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Mar 29, 2011
The lock on the card broke off and I tried using tape in that groove, but is too thick for my camcorder. I navigated /media > Context Menu > Properties > Permissions tab > File access, and chose Read and write, but this didn't allow my camcorder to record with the card. Unless there's a way to unlock it with software, I'll try switching the insides with the casing of another. I just want to know what is the best type of SD card or Mini SD adpter to do the trick, i.e. what has the best lock.
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Oct 17, 2010
I am helping a friend switch to Ubuntu Linux 10.10. She used Windows Vista to copy her own DVD's using DVD43 [URL] to remove copy protection and 1Click DVD Copy to burn them. She would like to do the same on Ubuntu. Can some one recommend alternative software for Linux that can do the same thing as what she did on Windows?
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Nov 5, 2010
I used to release my work in a series or short movies using Adobe Premiere Pro CS4, and do not know what is the alternate application that could do the same good job with the same quality? Also which application I can use to remove DVDs restrictions? I used to use DVD Decrypter to remove all protection to work on it later on.
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Jun 4, 2011
I have an Acer Aspire Netbook running a dual boot with Xp and Ubuntu Netbook Version (Lucid Lynx if I am not mistaken?) Anyway I plan on selling this netbook and I need to remove the Ubuntu Partition and go back to just a full Windows Xp partition with it's recovery partition also.
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Apr 18, 2010
I currently have both Ubuntu 9.10 and Windows XP installed on my PC. I want to remove the Ubuntu partition and leave the Windows partition. The question that I have is that when I remove it, Grub will go with it. Will that mess up my Windows partition?
What I need to do is remove Ubuntu and add the hdd space back to the other partition. I just don't want Grub's absence to keep me from being able to load Windows.
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Mar 9, 2010
is it possible to use a Windows-based recovery partition on a dual-boot computer to overwrite the Ubuntu partition and remove the GRUB loader? For instance, if you booted up your computer, accessed the hidden recovery partition and used it to reset the computer to it's factory default settings, would that effectively remove the Ubuntu partition and the GRUB loader? Would a completely new installation of Windows overwrite/uninstall Ubuntu and GRUB automatically?
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Oct 22, 2010
How would i write a command that can find all the objects under the etc directory that have group write permission enabled and have not been accessed in the last X days. This is what i got from internet souce but i m not able to modify it according to my distribution. find /etc -perm -0070 -a -mtime +X ! -type l?print Here is the exact statement from link i m referring to.
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May 24, 2010
I only have an ubuntu machine here, but I wish to transfer some files to her mac via my external hard drive. I only have an ubuntu machine here. I managed to make an hfs+ partition on my external hard drive using gparted after installing hfsprogs. I tried changing the permissions with chmod. The ls -l command yields:ls -l /dev/sdc1 brwxrwxrwx 1 root disk 8, 33 2010-05-24 10:53 /dev/sdc1
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Feb 10, 2010
remove a line starting with specific word with grep. Here is what I found
grep -v '^cc$' data.txt
Here I remove all lines with on 'cc' in that line. But I want the result write back to data.txt
I try several ways
grep -v '^cc$' data.txt > output.txt # works but to another file
echo `grep -v '^cc$' data.txt` > data.txt # didn't work, all carets gone, become one line
grep -v '^cc$' data.txt > data.txt # data.txt is empty after running this
How can I save the result of grep to the input file?
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May 4, 2010
I was running '# ls -l' in '/' directory and I noticed all directories in '/' have the following permeation 'drwxr-xr-x' [except root's home which is 'drwx------' (after I change it from 'drwxr-xr-x' )]
I don't want all the user (except root) to be able to read and execute (in) any directory, I just want every user to be abel to read/write/execute only in his/her home directory.
my question is, is it ok to change file and directory permeation of the following directories in '/' from 'drwxr-xr-x' to 'drwxr-x---' or 'drwx------' recursively?
/bin
/boot
/dev
/etc
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-I and the other users use the pc for internet, open office and email mainly.
-It does not run server(s) like smb/cif or NFS.
-There are 5 usernames (created by me, non of them are superusers) in th pc, only one user is required to login at any one time.
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Jul 24, 2010
I have a second 8GB partition but for some reason I cant write in it at all. I formated it but still doesn't let me write in it. I tried doing this:Quote:sudo chown -R username:username /media/BTBut this is what I get:Quote:
chown: changing ownership of `/media/sda2/FOUND.000/FILE0000.CHK': Operation not permitted
chown: changing ownership of `/media/sda2/FOUND.000': Operation not permitted
chown: changing ownership of `/media/sda2': Operation not permitted
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Aug 6, 2011
I recently installed ubuntu 11.04. After installation, I created two ext4 partitions in my hard drive. My problem is that I can't create any files in these partitions. These partitions are not automatically mounted at boot time, but once I try to access them , they get mounted. I thought all this was managed by /etc/fstab file but I can't see any entry for these partitions there. So, I created an entry for both these partitions in fstab file with the following options: auto,user,exec,rw,suid,dev However, now when i boot, i see that there are two partitions already mounted as earlier and there are two more in the Places menu. I am not able to mount them since they are already mounted. And I still can't create any files in those partitions.
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Jan 17, 2010
I used gparted to format and merge two partitions to a single 150gig partition. However, after mounting the partition (and entering my password) I am unable to write any files to it.I tried looking at its permissions. Both its owner and group is root.Could anyone help me by telling me how I could change this through gparted, the terminal, or any other way?
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Mar 4, 2010
I just finished installing Karmic Koala on my computer a little while ago... and I chose to partition the drive manually. My computer has 2 hard drives:
Here's the HDD which boots first and has Grub and Ubuntu on it:
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And my second HDD which has Windows and a backup partition called "datas":
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And here's a copy of my /etc/fstab file:
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# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# Use 'blkid -o value -s UUID' to print the universally unique identifier
# for a device; this may be used with UUID= as a more robust way to name
# devices that works even if disks are added and removed. See fstab(5).
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The ext3 partition on the 250GB drive called "datas" is an old partition that I created while I was still using Intrepid... and it works just fine. However the partition called "archives", which I created during the installation of Karmic, doesn't seem to work properly. For some reason I can't write any files or folders on it. Why is that?
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Mar 13, 2011
I was wondering if anyone knows how to read write a ntfs partition on thats on a separate linux machine ?
Is that even possible from one linux machine to another ?
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May 16, 2011
Is there an easy way to read/write to a mac partition inside ubuntu 11?
Any graphical ways to mount / umount?
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Nov 18, 2010
I have a USB stick of 8GB with two partition. Can I make one partition write protected? How?
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Jul 1, 2011
On opening nautilus,it shows the XP ad Fedora partitions.Clicking on them mounts the partition.However,XP partitions are mounted in Read/write mode,whereas Fedora partition is mounted only in Read mode.What changes should i need to make in /etc/fstab to enable Read/Write access to Fedora partition as well?
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Jul 19, 2009
Is there a way to make fedora 11 can write the hfs+ partition? Beside fedora i have mac os x, and usually i use third partition(fat) as medium to transfer file from fedora to mac.
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Apr 27, 2010
I have one partition with XFS, after load the X I went to nautilus and I tried to copy any file into that partition, but I only can read not write or execute. my questions are:1. what parameters should change in fstab to change this? the current parameters are "defaults 0 0"
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Jan 19, 2010
I am currently running Linux Mint 8 on a Thinkpad T60p and I decided to free up 20 GB, formatted to EXT4 for Slackware.ed G-Parted)I was able to install Slackware with VirtualBox with my Linux Mint host and I was able to follow through with a full installation without any problems.However when I tried to install it on a real partition I got the below notification: "You will not be able to write the partition table.
Note: Sector size is 2048 (not 512)Device contains neither a valid DOS partition table, nor Sun, SGI or OSF disklabel.Building a new disklabel with disk identifier 0xf4252222.Changes will remain in memory only, until you decide to write them.After that, of course, the previous content won't be recoverable.Warning: Invalid flag 0x0000 of partition table will be corrected by (w)rite"
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Mar 16, 2011
I'm having difficulty making my FAT32 drive capable of read/write. I followed the instructions here (http://ubuntuguide.org/wiki/Ubuntu:Maverick#Windows_Compatibility) and added the following line to my /etc/fstab file:
Code:
/dev/sda4 /media/WinD vfat quiet,defaults,rw 0 0
However, when I rebooted the drive is still read-only
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May 2, 2011
Recently i formatted my HDD into 5 partition namely :-
1) Win Vista
2) Ubuntu /
3) Home
4) Swp
5) EXT4 (Purpose is to share files between ubuntu and vista)
I'm wondering if its possible to install Virtual Box on both OS but pointing only to 1 virtual machine.
Also if its possible to permanently mount the shared partition on both OS.
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Jul 4, 2010
I am unable to write to ntfs partition.
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Jan 8, 2010
In one of our client system there is a partition which shows NTFS and other partitions are ext3...the partition which shows NTFS is a seperate HDD...The NTFS partition has been mounted...but we are not able to write anything to it...but we checked in /etc/fstab....it shows 'ro' so we changed to defaults....after making chnages when we tried to remount using the command mount -o remount /partition.it shows the device is already been in use try using the command fuser or lsof.we tried fuser /partition and then killed that process..still same error.....I would also like to know is there a way that we convert the NTFS partition to ext3 without losing the datas.
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